"Do you want to stay here?" I asked Joe."I only came after I found out you would be here." He said."I've got a room at the Hampton Inn." I said."Let's...go." Joe replied with a huge smile.We left the reunion and ended up driving to the hotel. As we entered the hotel and got on the elevator together, I asked "Are you sure you want to do this?" I've never been more sure about anything. I wanted this more than 10 years ago and was scared to act on it. I'm no longer scared."We entered my room that. ’ And I held him tenderly and kissed the peach fuzz on his pale cheeks. There were no imponderables in the equation that was we, equal as iron and as immutable, as only the young can be. And he put his hands to my jeans and put his hands backwards into my pockets and felt my groin and I groaned a bit, and demured a bit and was shy and ashamed, and he said, hey, don’t worry, it’s okay, and his body said it, and his eyes and I wanted to taste the freshness of him and the brightness of them. Once. I was hard to pick but I decided on abracelet of jade beads, but when I tried it on it was way too long for myarm, but the girl said I could wear it on my ankle until I was bigger.And I think it looked even nicer there. Really.Then we had to go to the Hair cut place, and I walked slow and I had mythumb in my mouth as I went in, because I was scared about what they weregoing to do. Before, when I lived in group homes, we got hair cuts aboutevery other month, and the man would just use those. "You were great out there Laura, you too, Craig!" Thanks, Mrs. Ingram," Craig says, taking off the wig and jacket thatmake up 'father's costume. The two of us, our work done for the evening,watch the rest of the play from the wings, applauding with the rest ofthe audience as it reaches its conclusion when Phil- the boy playing Mr.Henry- delivers a strong, flawless monologue, before his character isbeheaded for the murder of 'my father'."If he'd shot my 'real' father I'd probably have kissed.